The Best 11 Vagrant Alternatives

  • virt-manager

    The virt-manager application is a desktop user interface for managing virtual machines through libvirt. It primarily targets KVM VMs, but also manages Xen and LXC (linux containers).

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Kubernetes

    Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.

    Free Open Source Web

  • Apache Mesos

    Apache Mesos is a cluster manager that simplifies the complexity of running applications on a shared pool of servers.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Linux

  • Fig

    Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • FreeBSD Jails

    The FreeBSD jail mechanism is an implementation of operating system-level virtualization that allows system administrators to partition a FreeBSD-based computer system into several independent mini-systems called jails.

    Free Open Source BSD FreeBSD DragonFly BSD

  • Stakkr

    Stakkr is a lightweight development environment that relies on docker to deploy and link containers of all types. It can be installed in 3 steps : docker, stakkr then...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

  • boxgrinder

    BoxGrinder is a set of projects that help you grind out appliances for multiple virtualization and Cloud providers

    Free Open Source Linux

  • Arkose

    Desktop application sandboxing for Linux. It basically lets you start any installed binary in a configurable container. Changes are stored through copy-on-write.

    Free Open Source Linux